The Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant recently celebrated the opening of the new charging park for electrically powered trucks supplying the plant with the commissioning of six new fast-charging stations for trucks.
The construction of the fast-charging park at the Wörth site is an important milestone in the further electrification of road freight transport: Mercedes-Benz Trucks is also focusing on electric trucks in its own supply chain and aims to electrify 100 percent of delivery traffic into the largest truck plant by the end of 2026.
Since the start of the project, 20 percent of the deliveries of production materials ordered directly by Daimler Truck have already been electrified. An integral part of Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ future inbound logistics concept for emission-free delivery traffic is also the establishment of a plant-owned charging infrastructure at the Wörth site. It is a further example of the Daimler Truck brand’s TruckCharge offering, which covers topics such as consulting, infrastructure and operation relating to e-infrastructure and the charging of electric trucks.
The establishment of an in-house EV charging infrastructure ensures that haulage companies can charge their trucks during waiting and unloading times. Eight charging points have already been installed and put into operation on the factory premises in Wörth. This offer is now being supplemented by the new fast-charging park with six additional charging stations, with the option of adding two more charging stations that meet the requirements for future megawatt charging needs. The new fast-charging stations are located in the immediate vicinity of the plant entrance at Gate 2, through which delivery traffic enters the Wörth plant.
Since 2022, there has already been a charging park for customers at the Branch Information Center (BIC) in Wörth am Rhein, in the immediate vicinity of the plant. Here, e-truck customers can test charging stations and charging concepts from various manufacturers and work out customized charging solutions for their applications with the experts from Mercedes-Benz Trucks on site.
The largest truck assembly plant of Mercedes-Benz Trucks in Wörth am Rhein was founded in 1963. Since the beginning, around 4.4 million trucks have been built here. Today, these are the Actros, Arocs and Atego series. The Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks Econic, Unimog and Zetros are also built in Wörth. Series production of the battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 300/400 for distribution transport started in 2021. This was followed in 2022 by the second Mercedes-Benz eEconic electric series truck for municipal use. In October 2023, the eActros 600 for long-distance transport was presented to the global public. It will go into series production in Wörth at the end of November 2024. With around 10,000 employees, the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth is the second-largest employer in Rhineland-Palatinate.
